User guide

Preparing for a job Operation Instructions SC Cutting Plotters

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AP-75026 Rev 1.0 - 11/01/00

TOOL PRESETS / TOOLTYPE SELECTION

Your cutting plotter is capable of remembering

4 tool presets

. Each of them can

remember all tool settings required for a specific application : Tool Type, Speed,

Acceleration, Force, Offset (knives only), punching gap (punching tool only).

To take control of the Tool Presets and the Tool type selection, you need to select the

TOOL Menu

with the menu keys (Led next to Tool must be on).

When the TOOL Menu is selected, you can do 2 things:

•

Activate another Tool Preset.

•

Change the Tool Type / Toolkind for the selected Tool preset.

Activating another Tool Preset :

1. Via the MENU keys, select the TOOL option (LED next to TOOL must be ON). Please

make sure the plotter is OFF-LINE.

2. Press the

VALUE -

key to select: TOOL-UP, TOOL 1, TOOL 2, TOOL 3, TOOL 4.

Each of those corresponds with one Tool-Preset, capable of remembering: Tool Type,

Speed, Acceleration, Force, Offset and Punching gap. Tool-up (selected when all Tool

LED’s are OFF) is used to control SPEED & ACCELERATION for TOOL-UP

movements.

3. Press ENTER to confirm your Tool Preset Selection, also when TOOL-UP is selected

(all TOOL LEDs OFF).

4. You can now switch to another MENU to change SPEED, ACCELERATION or FORCE

for the selected Preset. When the TOOL-UP settings are being modified, it is not

necessary to select one of the other presets to start a job. The cutting plotter will

automatically re-activate the tool preset which was selected prior to selecting the tool -

up preset.

Changing the TOOL TYPE of a Tool preset

Your cutting plotter is compatible with knives, drawing pens and a punching (pouncing)

tool. To make sure that a job is executed correctly you must be sure that the tool preset

which is used is set up for the tool you want to use.

By factory default, the set-up is as follows:

Preset Tool LED Tool Type

Tool Preset 1 Tool 1 Knife

Tool Preset 2 Tool 2 Knife

Tool Preset 3 Tool 3 Pen

Tool Preset 4 Tool 4 Pen

When the TOOL MENU is selected (LED next to TOOL is ON), the LED-bar on top shows

the tool type.